"Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire."
-- W. B. Yeats

MRP Administered:


Adolescent Motivation to Read Profile reading survey
Adolescent Motivation to Read conversational interview
Survey and Interview created by:
Sharon M. Pitcher, Lettie K. Albright, Carol J. DeLaney, Nancy T.Walker, Krishna
Seunarinesingh, Stephen Mogge, Kathy N. Headley, Victoria Gentry Ridgeway,
Sharon Peck, Rebecca Hunt, Pamela J. Dunston ( "Assessing adolescents' motivation to read."Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 50:5, p. 378-396, February 2007.)
Adapted with permission from the Motivation to Read Profile (Gambrell, Palmer, Codling, & Mazzoni, 1996)





MRP Survey Scores:

Raw Scores:
Self-concept as a reader: 24/40
Value of reading: 25/40
Total: 49/80

Percentage Scores:
Self-concept as a reader: 60%
Value of reading: 62.5%
Total: 61.25%